Practice Assignment: 28 | Class 6 BBC Compacta Solutions PDF Download

(A) Fill in the blanks with appropriate present tense form of the verb given in brackets.

1.
Ans: flows

2.
Ans: has been raining

3.
Ans: have finished

4.
Ans: is waiting

5.
Ans: are cutting

6.
Ans: are, worrying

7.
Ans: has been living

8.
Ans: sing

9.
Ans: Are, doing

10.
Ans: Have, made

11.
Ans: are preparing 

12.
Ans: has been raining

13.
Ans: are, waiting

14.
Ans: is coming 

15.
Ans: sells

(B) Underline the verbs in the following sentences and identify the form of present tense used.

1.
Ans: drink (Simple Present) 

2.
Ans:  comes (Present Indefinite) 

3.
Ans: are going (Present Continuous) 

4.
Ans: is arriving (Present Continuous) 

5.
Ans: Have gone  (Present Perfect) 

6.
Ans: has been (Present Perfect Continuous) 

7.
Ans: has been (Present Perfect Continuous) 

8.
Ans: has been sleeping (Present Perfect Continuous) 

9.
Ans: are looking (Present Continuous) 

10.
Ans: have never seen (Present Perfect) 

(C) Identify the wrong use of present tense in the foll. sentences and rewrite them in the correct form.

1.
Ans: The engineers have been building the road for several months.

2.
Ans: Have you watered the plants?

3.
Ans: They have gone to Chennai.

4.
Ans: Sheela is doing her work.

5.
Ans: The clock has just struck twelve.

6.
Ans: I have been thinking about you since morning.

7.
Ans: I am reading David Copperfield these days.

8.
Ans: The school will reopen on Monday.

9.
Ans: I don't want to go with you.

10.
Ans: My father has been working in Chandigarh nowadays. 

(D) Complete the following sentences by appropriately using Past Continuous / Simple Past forms of the verbs given in brackets.

1.
Ans: The chief minister was listening to the grievances of the people when the lights went off. 

2.
Ans: Madam Geoffrey was having supper when she heard a bang in the street. 

3.
Ans: The girls in the ground were playing when suddenly strong winds began to blow. 

4.
Ans: Rohan was riding the bicycle when he hit the fence. 

5.
Ans: The doctor was attending his patients when it started to rain heavily. 

(E) Complete the following sentences by using the Past Simple / Past Perfect forms of the verbs in brackets.

1.
Ans: Minnie went home because she had forgotten to complete her homework. 

2.
Ans: Mother ate breakfast after she had washed the clothes. 

3.
Ans: My aunt wrote the letter because uncle had asked her to do so. 

4.
Ans: When I reached school, the bell had already rung. 

5.
Ans: When I reached the hall, the band had finished their rehearsal. 

6.
Ans: Had mother baked the cake by the time her friends arrived? 

7.
Ans: I had not seen a green parakeet until I visited the zoo. 

8.
Ans: When I reached home, Harry and Trishla had already left. 

9.
Ans: We did not enjoy the film because we had seen it earlier. 

10.
Ans: He played football after he had finished his homework. 

(F) Fill in the blanks with the correct form of verbs given in brackets.

1.
Ans: will meet

2.
Ans: will have

3.
Ans: plans

4.
Ans: have heard

5.
Ans: has done 

6.
Ans: will leave

7.
Ans: will go 

8.
Ans: will attempt

9.
Ans: I had completed 

10.
Ans: finished 

11.
Ans: will reach 

12.
Ans: will leave

13.
Ans: began 

14.
Ans: prepared, succeeded 

15.
Ans: Was, resting

16.
Ans: had finished, will keep